Honestly, the way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if we were already in the Matrix, but it runs on the overpriced AI models that sometimes deliver results and sometimes hallucinate stuff like an orange windbag becoming the president not once, but twice after a career of lying and criming.
People need to take a quiet moment.
And consider what if?
What if Musk, Crazed CEO of America Inc wins.
You must have a plan.
For your family and community.
Immigration?
Where too?
Join a resistance?
Because THEY are planning.
Concentration camps are being built.
Never say it can’t happen.
I have massive doubts Elon has that kind of money to throw around, his debt for Twitter probably has only grown and a good chunk of it has already been sold for cheap because the banks don't think the odds look good for him every paying it
Musk is too late and he can only try to pull an Internet Explorer like Gates and destroy Netscape. But that cost Gates his job and almost led to the breaking up of Microsoft.
And Altman and the others will fight Musk tooth and nail if he continues to use the power of the government against them all
we're in a new era of Robber Barons, with monopolistic & unethical tech-industrialists & financiers amassing fortunes and wielding enormous influence over markets and politics.
We need a 21st century Progressive Movement to break up the broligarchy.
I imagine it would be the world's best interest to keep this from happening at any cost. If I had billions of dollars I'd be hitting up my other billionaire friends to get the money together to stop stupid from gaining anymore tools to terrorize the world. Just saying.
Tesla stock is actively imploding. It has lost 80 dollars per share since the inauguration, and it is only going to keep dropping.
His purchase of Twitter burnt a LOT of people who won't back this risky play
slight exaggeration, but the active drop of 80 dollars is not a good sign, especially as Tesla sales are plummeting in China and Europe. Add on to the very good chance that Canadian (and later European) tarrifs will target Tesla specifically?
Musk quite literally does not have the capital, both financial and personal, to drop 90 billion on this. It's a desperate gamble to try and add actual value to his portfolio, a gamble that will almost assuredly fail
This is a master class in knowing what actual wealth really is. Most of these billionaires are floating in a sea of debt and have very little cash on hand. It's all an illusion.
AI run government is the long game. AI controlled by Musk and his back door building hackers. Trump said he wants America to lead in AI and crypto. Vance is in Europe pushing unregulated AI. Welcome to the Machine.
If he wants to improve Grok, then trying to buy ChatGPT is a strange move. It has been lapped in terms of quality several times over by Claude and now even much smaller models like Deepseek.
In the short to medium term, yes, as an engineer, I agree. And ChatGPT has name recognition, but they also have been taking one big hit after another over the past year & they have lost significant market share. Imo it's likely that Musk is at least partially motivated here by his feud with Altman.
They own the whole market so they only have market to lose. the MS partnership has them in Windows, Azure, and GitHub. That and Reddit, Apple, a dozen media companies and the deal they made to be used in the national labs. They are about the only name recognized by most purchasers and managers.
He literally just closed a round at $160b and he hates Musk. I don't think he'll cave easily and the price will likely be more than Musk can afford at this point
Agree for sure. BUT consider the reasons muskrat wants OpenAi. The system is entrenched in many environments globally and the maggots want access to all the training and data resources to merge with the data and information they stole from US government. No court action will stop them
Whatever he pays, Musk will destroy 75 percent of the value as he did with Twitter. Unless he gets grown ups to manage it AND shuts the fuck up forever.
Between Google, Meta, Twitter, Apple and our Medicare, Medicaid, US Treasury data they will know most everything about us and with AI and facial and voice recognition they’ll be able to sort that data in frightening tyrannical ways.
Humans are the only species sprinting toward their own demise. AI? Last summer a simple software update shut down how much of daily function? Simple facts can't exist with the web we use now. We're eliminating the need for ourselves and pushing for more speed and efficiency to do it.
Unlikely. Microsoft won’t allow it, SoftBank has deeper pockets, and OpenAI’s board blocks hostile takeovers. He’s stuck with lawsuits and xAI. Musk can disrupt, sue, or poach talent—but he won’t own OpenAI.
Sadly, whether Altman wants to do the deal or not, his fellow shareholders and board members have a fiduciary responsibility to examine an offer of this size and would likely force the sale.
Yes valuations are fake but they are still used for sale price. That’s how most of finance works. Bullshit and hand waving. The system is built purely on belief and faith.
A policy as simple and moderate as raising the tax rate on Capital gains to match the tax on standard income tax would go a long way fixing this issue, but I never hear democratic pols discussing this
Because they can't figure out how to fight the pushback. Look what happened when kamala suggested taxing unrealized capital gains over $100 million. The magats watching Fox screamed about how it would impact profits from selling their homes.
People barely worth $300k believed this shit.
Great point, but I think the issue is all about messaging, it is not that hard to explain a person who goes to work everyday and makes say 60K a year should not pay a higher tax rate than someone born wealthy, who does no work and just invests, and makes millions of dollars in capital gains
Absolutely. Messaging has to break thru
It has to be relatable and not require deep thought.
And delivered with charisma.
Plus clearly define an enemy. Fear and anger drive votes.
Sad but true.
I think the Democrats are afraid of losing backing from wealthy donors, the Wall Street money, but if money alone won elections, Hillary and Kamala would have been president - the messaging is where we lose
I don't know what message would work but there must be something simple that can be driven home and make people understand it. Democrats wouldn't even have to lie like Trump.
Altman won't have to fold, Elon is broke, and highly leveraged his Tesla stock to buy Twitter for 44 billion now worth 9 billion. If he continues to FA he will FO. He wants to do the same deal like Twitter to buy open AI, because like his lies of Full Self Driving Tesla his AI Grok doesn't work 😏
I'm all for it. That way, I can plug myself into learning a dozen languages and jiu jitsu without breaking a sweat and still have time for crumpets.
I welcome our new robot overlords.
If they keep buying and selling Twitter and open a.i. back and forth - it will create an infinite wealth loop paradox and they'll become hyper trillionaires and ascend to the 5th dimension!!!
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And consider what if?
What if Musk, Crazed CEO of America Inc wins.
You must have a plan.
For your family and community.
Immigration?
Where too?
Join a resistance?
Because THEY are planning.
Concentration camps are being built.
Never say it can’t happen.
I won’t trust the output after that.
Figuratively. And literally.
And Altman and the others will fight Musk tooth and nail if he continues to use the power of the government against them all
We need a 21st century Progressive Movement to break up the broligarchy.
We’re ahead of the dip. 😂
His purchase of Twitter burnt a LOT of people who won't back this risky play
I'm actively rooting for it, but we're not quite there yet.
Good thing I never invest in immoral or nazi stocks.
Comfortably numb
Tsla is tanking
X is destroyed. 9B still too much
Nobody will log on to use grok itself
The same way first time buyers will not buy a 2nd tesla
He poisoned that well
Control comms and you control the masses.
#attentionseekers #adolescents
so he buys.
THEN NEXT WEEK WILL TELL EVERYONE HE BUILT THIS BUSINESS FROM THE GROUND UP.
phelon is a fucking bullshitter.
And this is his opening bid.
Whoever creates the first GI will rule the world for a brief period of time. Then the AI will rule us all.
I’m not making jokes here either. That’s what will happen. It’s a huge concern among experts.
People barely worth $300k believed this shit.
It has to be relatable and not require deep thought.
And delivered with charisma.
Plus clearly define an enemy. Fear and anger drive votes.
Sad but true.
I welcome our new robot overlords.